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D. E. POWERS.

CIGAR BOX.

No. 336,433. Patented Feb. 1 MI" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL E. POWERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENT PAPER CIGARBOX COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CIGAR-BOX.

$PECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,433, dated February16,1886.

Application filed July 10, 1885. Serial No. 171,201.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL E. PoWERs, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oigar-Boxes,ofwhich the following is aspecification,reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a [O cigar-box of suificientstrength to withstand the usual pressure incident to the packing of thecigars, and which can be produced economically in a great variety ofsizes without.

the use of expensive machinery.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blanks comprising the body of thisimproved cigarbox, arranged in such relations to each other as toindicate their proper relative positions. Fig. 2 is a plan of saidbody,including the bot- 2c tom,before the reenforcingand covering stripsare applied. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of this improved cigar-box,theornamental j ointcovering strips being omitted from a portion of saidfigure and one corner of the box being 2 5 broken away. Fig.4.is a planview,on asmaller scale,of the main blank designed to form a part of thebox-body.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thedifferent figures.

This improved cigar-box is composed offour pieces or blanks-to wit, amain body-blank, A, an auxiliary body-blank,l3,a bottom-blank, O, and acover-blank, D. These blanks are preferably cut from straw-board coveredon one side with a layer of paper stamped in imitation of cedar-wood.The main body-blank A consists of an elongated approximately-rectangularstrip of a width equal to the height of the box to be formed,and ofalength sufficient 40 to compass the two sides of the box and threetimes the length of one end thereof. This blank is provided with fourtransverse scores, w, w, y, and z, and comprises a square or rectangularside section, a, designed to constitute one side of the box, a square orrectangular section, b, designed to constitute the opposite side of thebox, a square or rectangular section, 0, intermediate between said sidesections and designed to constitute a single layer of one of (No model.)

the double ends of the box, and square or rectangular end flaps, d 6,attached, respectively, to the side sections, a b, at the ends thereofopposite the intermediate section, 0, said end flaps being designed toconstitute the other double end of the box. This blank is preferablyrecessed at its upper edge between the scores w w, and also between thescores y 2, whereby the parts constituting the ends are made to extendabove the sides when the box is set up a distance equal to the thicknessof the blank, so that the cover will close between the ends of the boxflush with the upper edge thereof.

The section b is longer than the section a a distance equal to thethickness of the blank. The intermediate end section, 0, and the endflap, d, are of the same length, and the end flap, 0, is longer thansaid section and [lap a distance equal to the thickness of the blank,whereby a square corner is secured.

.In setting up this improved cigar-box the side sections, a b, are firstfolded at right angles to the intermediate end section, 0. The shorterend flap, (2, attached to the side section, a, is then folded at rightangles thereto, and the longer end flap, 6, attached to the sidesection, b, is then folded at right angles to said side section and madeto completely overlap the flap d, its outer end being preferably flushwith the outer face of the side a. angular auxiliary end-blank B is thenplaced inside the intermediate end section, 0, of the blank A. Therectangular bottom-blank C is then fitted to the body thus formed, beingpreferably placed inside said body with its 85 lower surface flush withthe lower edge of said body. The severed end of the flap d rests againstthe inner face of the side I), and both ends of the auxiliary blank Brest against the opposite sides, a b, said blank and flap thus 0 servingas braces and rendering the box stiff and strong. The parts are gluedtogether and a re-enforcing strip, z, composed preferably of cottoncloth or other suitable textile fabric, is glued over the joint betweenthe bottom and 5 body.

The cover-blank D is hinged to the upper edge of one of the sides,preferably by means The rectl of two strips, 9, of cotton cloth, gluedto the opposite face of the joint. A fastener, E, of any suitableconstruction, is then attached to the cover and the front side of thebox.

The exterior joints of the box are covered by strips h of ornamentalpaper, in the usual manner, and the interior of the box is lined withpaper.

A box thus constructed is strong, durable, and symmetrical, and can beproduced cheaply in a great variety of sizes without the use ofexpensive machinery for each distinct size.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A rectangular cigar-box,the body ofwhich is composed of a blankcomprising the two opposite sides, a single end,and a double end, and anauxiliary blank placed against said single end and forming therewith adouble end, the said ends being the thickness of the cover above thesides.

2. A blank for the body of a cigar-box,cousisting of a strip havingtransverse scores w m y z,and comprising rectangular recessed sidesections, a b, an intermediate rectangular end section,c, andrectangular end flaps,d e, of corresponding shape, and being thethickness of the cover higher than the recessed sides, substantially asdescribed.

3. A blank for the body of a cigar-box,consisting of a strip havingtransverse scores w w y z, and comprising rectangular side sections, ab, an intermediate rectangular end section, 0, and rectangular endfiaps,d e,of corresponding shape, said blank being recessed at one edgebetween the scores 20 and 0c and also between the scores y and z,substantially as described.

4. A blank for the body of a cigar-box,consisting of a strip havingtransverse scores w w y aand comprising rectangular side sections, a b,an intermediate rectangular end section, c,and rectangular end flaps,de,of corresponding shape, the end flap, d, being the thickness of thematerial shorter than the end flap, e, substantially as described.

DANIEL E. POWERS.

Witnesses:

DANIEL J. LYONS, MARY V. B. CHASE.

